As part of its extensive slate of observations, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently took a closer look at Pluto’s ...

After passing Pluto, the craft will continue into the farthest reaches of the solar system. Scientists suspect there may be yet more moons around Pluto, some perhaps sharing or swapping orbits and ...

Our solar system has eight planets but in recent years, astronomers have theorised there could well be a ninth planet that's hiding in our solar system we've not been able to see yet.

Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen Peroxide on Pluto's Moon Charon Oct. 1 ... Gigantic Asteroid Impact Shifted the Axis of Solar System's Biggest Moon Sep. 3, 2024 — Around 4 billion years ago ...

Orbiting at the edge of the outer Solar System, Pluto is an intriguing object in astronomy. Since the fascinating events surrounding its discovery, it has helped increase our understanding of the ...

Chiefly, the finding could help explain why Pluto, the largest known object in the Kuiper Belt — a vast region of icy bodies in the outer solar system — is dominated by rock rather than ice.

NASA has given a new lease of life to its New Horizons mission, which in 2015 got the first-ever close-ups images of dwarf planet Pluto ... its solar wind at the very edges of our solar system.

New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern says, "Pluto is showing us a diversity of landforms and complexity of processes that rival anything we've seen in the solar system." As the craft ...

This 'Kuiper Belt' of minor planets beyond Neptune revolutionised our understanding of the solar system's formation and finally explained the origin of the enigmatic outer planet Pluto. This is the ...

New studies led by researchers at the University of Central Florida offer for the first time a clearer picture of how the ...

For a long time no one was really interested in Pluto. By 1989 we'd explored all the other eight planets in our solar system. Pluto was the only one left unexplored. When scientists sent Voyager 1 ...

TNOs are small bodies, or 'planetesimals,' orbiting the sun beyond Pluto. They never accreted into planets, and serve as pristine time capsules, preserving crucial evidence of the molecular processes ...